Show GATHERING DATA ATA ON SUGAR Facts and Figures to Be Submitted to Palmer Palme Attorneys and accountants of the Utah Idaho Sugar ugar company have be begun begun begun be- be gun work on the compilation of figurea fig fig- ur urea reg s to be submitted to the United States department of Justice on ott the I production reduction costs of beet sugar according according ac- ac cording to Isaac Blair Evans United States district attorney The purpose purposes is s to show the rel relative Uve cost of producIng producing pro- pro the sugar as compared with the he new selling price of 2348 an- an by the company last Satu Satur- Satur day clay ay The facts will be to i Attorney General A A. Mitchell Palmer at t Washington who will decide I whether or n not t the company Is to be beI I prosecuted for profiteering under the Lever ever act Upon the face fac of I the matter the unprecedented advance In the price of f beet sugar seems unreasonable said aid Mr EVans EVan today It appears that lat It will be difficult to justify the selling elling price with the cost price under the he information we we already have as aso asto asto to o what it cost the company per pound to produce the sugar last seaon sea- sea son Ron on However we have been promIsed promised prom- prom sed a full explanation with the figures gures to back it U up and these will willbe wille be e submitted to Mr Palmer I would not ot un undertake e to forecast what his action would be but I expect prosecutions prose prose- to to follow Floyd T T. Jackson of the federal bureau bureau bu- bu reau eau of investigation is now engaged in n checking up on the sugar supply in n Utah According to preliminary researches he supply will be found to to gr greatly atly exceed the popular impression of f a a limited amount still held eld here f I |